Bucky, I got fed up late last night and just tried to format it... Wouldn't format via drive utility (input/output error) nor could I delete anything using any dos based hard drive zero-er. To me...
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Bucky, I got fed up late last night and just tried to format it... Wouldn't format via drive utility (input/output error) nor could I delete anything using any dos based hard drive zero-er. To me...
Everything I found for fixing sector read errors were things that I already did with the exception of the dos program HDAT2. Unfortunately I ran that and it gives me an error:
"ERROR reading of the...
Tried using Photorec, both for ext2/ext3 file systems and for "other" file systems. For both the bottom line always reads "Error reading sector (sector number)" and says 0 files found.
My...
Following the suggestion of another website, I tried the command dmesg | grep "[sh]da"
a ton of similar results popped up. A typical one looked like:
[ 940.967521] sd 2:0:0:0 [sda] CDB:...
Used Disk Utility. Partition types are all listed as unknown. Partitioning is "Unknown Scheme"
Tried the dumpe2fs from the link you provided. Response was "Couldn't find valid filesystem...
I will check on that tomorrow. Some people said it was ext3, some said it was a raid stup, bt trying to mount as an ext3 (or 2) gave the error that the FS was wrong. I also tried to follow directions...
Sorry, I've been driving myself crazy with this that I missed some important info!
I am using a ubuntu live cd (created a couple of months ago) for doing all of this.
The hard drive is a WD...
Hello,
My WD My Book World drive has crapped out on me. I took the hard drive out of the case and put it into my desktop. I am now trying to access the drive with the only purpose of recovering...